prelusive
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The last words were murmured as if to himself rather than to us, and he accompanied them abstractedly with tentative, prelusive chords, which gradually grew into the most strangely moving music I have ever heard.
From A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy by George Sampson
The lights seemed dim, my voice sounded far away, there was a tumult in my senses that was prelusive of fainting.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
There was a fine note in Mr. Allen's earliest work; a prelusive note with the quality of the flute....
From James Lane Allen: A Sketch of his Life and Work by Unknown
We hope to find that the last essay, upon the "Moral Ideal," is prelusive to another effort in this direction.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
Loke was the cause of the former prelusive war.
From Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Ph.D.
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word